Centers

SSLS

Director(s):

Lead Institution:

Sandia National Laboratories

Years:

2009-2014

Mission:

To explore energy conversion in tailored photonic structures and materials to enable revolutionary breakthroughs in the efficiency and performance of light emitting diode (LED)-based lighting; to improve energy-efficiency in the way we light our homes and offices, which currently accounts for 20 percent of the Nation’s electrical energy use. Solid-state lighting has the potential to cut that energy consumption in half, or even more.